Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)

@rin
does that make you sus?

@defuneste
I noticed that before LLMs from the user side:

As soon as I got good enough at reading other people's source code that I could solve most of my problems without asking on IRC or forums, it became very difficult for me to join any community.

@nytpu TIL Fox Chell exists!

@tuban_muzuru @inthehands
The data sourcing problem isn't as simple as copyright.

What AI companies are doing is:

1. taking from a public resource (public websites, source code of FOSS projects, knowledge-sharing forums, etc)

2. destroying the public resource in the process (overloading the websites, flooding FOSS projects with slop PRs, disrubting the social dynamic required for forums to work)

3. renting you access to a worse version of the public resource they have destroyed

is a cohort of angry, jobless hackers as dangerous to a state as a cohort of angry, jobless rocket scientists?

@nihl
do EFI bikes come with a Carburetor Simulation Module for backwards-compatibility?

Why do microSD cards develop ioerrors after a year in an SBC...

@nytpu based on some of my family members' fate, if you die from radiotherapy, it can be weeks or months after radiotherapy ended. It can have very delayed consequences...

Is there an online marketplace for renting roof space for antennas, or is this a "cold-send an email asking for a quote" type of market?

@jmaris
> If we allow Russia to win in Ukraine, or to achieve an unjust peace, it will be a matter of years before Russia attacks the European Union

Here's the trick: we don't.

> If we choose to wait, we are only giving Russia the time it needs to rearm and prepare to attack us

No, we're also giving ourselves time to rearm and prepare to defend.

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@jmaris
> the moment Russia wins or achieves an unjust peace, their next consideration will be [...] breaking that peace to conquer more of Ukraine

Ukraine will do its best to not agree on a peace deal that would allow Russia to do that.

In order to pull that off, Russia would need a exceptional information asymmetry, or pressure on Ukraine from the West greater than Trump's last attempt.

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@jmaris

> propaganda is spreading online about a "Narva people's republic" in #Estonia.
> [...] War is coming to Europe.

Are you saying that now Russia is able to wage two wars at the same time?

@piggo I think even electing a new crook would make things better if they were able to convince the crook that there will be a next election, and that losing it is possible.

@piggo
If that were to happen, then the only thing needed for completing the transmutation circle would be a war between Algeria and Tunisia...

@piggo https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Nationwide_Transmutation_Circle

although I got it wrong, it was supposed to be 10 bloodbaths not 5

TIL TCP congestion control was an afterthought

what if someone rented a lot of residential proxies in Poland, tried scraping allegro through them, and got them all IP-banned?

Would the users of these IPs get pissed off enough to find the malware that does the proxying and unistall them? Would allegro relax its anti-bot measures to avoid locking real people out?

@ryanc
I never understood why people default to T568B :/

@Suiseiseki
An infinitely long 50 ohm coax looks to the wave just like a 50 ohm resistor between tip and shield, right?

A finitely long coax with a 50 ohm resistor at the end looks like a finitely long coax with an infnitely long coax at the end, which is the same as infnitely long coax starting a bit closer.

So the 50ohm terminator means,no reflection from the end of the cable.

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@Suiseiseki
Now, imagine you want to connect 2 infinite cables to the same signal source, each going in a different direction.

Each has 50 ohms, so connecting them in parallel gets you 25 ohms. That will create reflections back to the source from the point where they're connected.

So you could connect a 50 ohm resistor in series with each cable. Cable + resistor = 100 ohm, two such things in parallel and you're back to 50 ohms.

You lose some power, yes, but you get no reflections.

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